Working USB-Sticks

Supertalent 8GB Pico-C (bought in 2008) got broken beyond any low level formatting on last dd session. RMA and free replacement (based on their lifetime warranty) from US to Germany within three weeks, nice!

Sandisk Cruzer Fit still humming along without any issues whatsoever. 5 months now. I prefer the drive just for how compact it is even if it is a bit slow.

@Rat,

Sorry, Off Topic for a moment, did you get the heartbeat implemented in the later kernel version? some kernel version (e.g. 3.x.x) does not generate the delay on/off trigger. I hope the heartbeat LED is going to be put back, I surely miss it :-)

Here is the old thread, in case you want to revisit it: http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,3521,3545#msg-3545

Thanks

bodhi Wrote:
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> Sorry, Off Topic for a moment, did you get the
> heartbeat implemented in the later kernel version?
> some kernel version (e.g. 3.x.x) does not generate
> the delay on/off trigger. I hope the heartbeat LED
> is going to be put back, I surely miss it :-)

'fraid not. I've stuck with the old kernel. Didn't want to have to deal with the headache of getting things working again, so I haven't tried to do a single thing with the newer kernels.

rat Wrote:
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> Sandisk Cruzer Fit still humming along without any
> issues whatsoever. 5 months now. I prefer the
> drive just for how compact it is even if it is a
> bit slow.


Another vote for the Sandisk Cruzer Fit. Using 8Gb version and has been rock solid for cold, warm, and power interrupts. And with its size and small led, looks awesome on the front of my pink Pogoplug!

I've had good luck with using SD cards in D 1976:1307 Chipsbrand Microelectronics (HK) Co., Ltd. readers. Both the larger size and the one that takes micro-sd cards. They appear to use the same id.

USB 3 must be about to hit big-time as the prices on usb2 drives has plummeted (super media store has many at just over 50 cents per gig. The also have usb3 flash drives for the first time)

Has anyone developed a good way to partion the work load between ro and rw so that they can be on different sd cards or usb drives, one that will be expected to wear out and the other that should last??

TJ

TJ Wrote:

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> Has anyone developed a good way to partion the
> work load between ro and rw so that they can be on
> different sd cards or usb drives, one that will be
> expected to wear out and the other that should
> last??


I have a Dockstar booted from a usb flash drive but the swap space is a swap file on an external usb hard disk. This should prevent the flash drive from wearing out so quickly.

I simple added "usb stop; usb start; usb start" into my bootcmd-chain and now every usb drive that didn't work before just works fine for me now :P
just takes a bit more time... but they work :)

I hit the problem with my no-name USB stick. After it failed to boot from the USB stick and instead booted into the pogoplug code, I realized that I was unable to mount /dev/sda1 from inside the pogoplug code. I did a mke2fs from inside and confirmed that I was then able to mount the partition, I re-installed Debian (but with the mke2fs commented out from the Debian install script). Now I am able to boot from the USB stick (tried it 4 times so far and success everytime). Does this mean anything to others on the thread?

I have a weired problem ..

I can boot pogoplug with 2/4 Gb drives .. did it many times .. now I have misplaced them.
So i tried my Sandisk 16gb .. no go with Debian squeeze or wheezy ... but Arch boots .. oye wei

yes i tried the setenv to init the usb ,, but that has no affect.
whatever it's worth someones time .. yes it's pogoplug e02 the pink one.

Lexar S73 8GB USB3 (LJDS73-8GBASBNA) - cold/warm boot working.
Lexar S73 16GB USB3 (LJDS73-16GASBNA) - cold/warm boot working.

The Lexar USB3 are much faster than my other USB2 sticks. I can recommend these.

Kingston DT101G2-64GB - does not warm boot. Cold boots fine. This drive is much slower than the Lexar USB3's.